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Yifu Wu, MBA
  • MBA, Finance and Accounting, University of Chicago (Expected 2021)
  • MS, Engineering, Purdue University
  • BS, Marine Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University
  • ​Technical Program Manager, John Deere
  • Pension Fund Analyst Intern, John Deere Pension Fund ($15b AUM)
  • Data Analyst, Caterpillar
  • Mechanical Engineer, Schlumberger
Currently, Yifu is an MBA student at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he serves as a portfolio manager for student management investment fund. He is also working full-time as a technical program manager at John Deere to push an enterprise-level data analytics platform, and part-time as a pension fund analyst at John Deere Pension Fund. Besides that, he is an active patent inventor with 1 granted US patent and several patent applications in the pipeline, all in the data science/machine learning area. 

Before Deere, Yifu was working as a data analyst at Caterpillar and a mechanical engineer at Schlumberger. His broad working experience and passion in various industries from industrial to data science would contribute to deal review and strategies for the portfolio companies. A fun/sad fact, Yifu is a registered international sailor who was supposed to go seafaring after undergrad study, but he had severe seasickness so he had to abandon this dream.
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      • Tracy I George
      • Elise Singer
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      • Russ Altman
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